2022 AMC 12B Problems

Problem 1

Define to be for all real numbers and . What is the value of

Problem 2

In rhombus , point lies on segment such

that , , and . What is the area of ?

Problem 3

How many of the first ten numbers of the sequence , , , ... are
prime numbers?

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Problem 4

For how many values of the constant will the polynomial have two
distinct integer roots?

Problem 5

The point is rotated counterclockwise about the point . What are

the coordinates of its new position?

Problem 6

Consider the following sets of elements each:

How many of these sets contain exactly two multiples of ?

(A) 40 (B) 42 (C) 43 (D) 49 (E) 50

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Problem 7

Camila writes down five positive integers. The unique mode of these integers
is greater than their median, and the median is greater than their arithmetic mean.
What is the least possible value for the mode?

Problem 8

What is the graph of in the coordinate plane?

Problem 9

The sequence is a strictly increasing arithmetic sequence of positive

integers such that

What is the minimum possible value of ?

(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 17 (E) 22

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Problem 10

Regular hexagon has side length . Let be the midpoint of , and

let be the midpoint of . What is the perimeter of ?

Problem 11

Let

where . What is ?

Problem 12

Kayla rolls four fair -sided dice. What is the probability that at least one of the
numbers Kayla rolls is greater than and at least two of the numbers she rolls are
greater than ?

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Problem 13

The diagram below shows a rectangle with side lengths 4 and 8 and a square with
side length 5. Three vertices of the square lie on three different sides of the rectangle,
as shown. What is the area of the region inside both the square and the rectangle?

Problem 14

The graph of

intersects the -axis at points and and the -axis at point . What
is ?

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Problem 15

One of the following numbers is not divisible by any prime number less than 10.
Which is it?

(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)

Problem 16

Suppose and are positive real numbers such that

and .

What is the greatest possible value of ?

Problem 17

How many arrays whose entries are s and s are there such that the row sums
(the sum of the entries in each row) are and in some order, and the column
sums (the sum of the entries in each column) are also and in some order?
For example, the array

satisfies the condition.

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(A) 144 (B) 240 (C) 336 (D) 576 (E) 624

Problem 18

Each square in a grid is either filled or empty, and has up to eight adjacent
neighboring squares, where neighboring squares share either a side or a corner. The
grid is transformed by the following rules:

▪ Any filled square with two or three filled neighbors remains filled.
▪ Any empty square with exactly three filled neighbors becomes a filled square.
▪ All other squares remain empty or become empty.

A sample transformation is shown in the figure below.

Suppose the grid has a border of empty squares surrounding a subgrid.

How many initial configurations will lead to a transformed grid consisting of a single
filled square in the center after a single transformation? (Rotations and reflections
of the same configuration are considered different.)

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(A) 14 (B) 18 (C) 22 (D) 26 (E) 30

Problem 19

In medians and intersect at and is equilateral.

Then can be written as , where and are relatively prime positive

integers and is a positive integer not divisible by the square of any prime. What
is

(A) 44 (B) 48 (C) 52 (D) 56 (E) 60

Problem 20

Let be a polynomial with rational coefficients such that when is divided

by the polynomial , the remainder is , and when is divided by
the polynomial , the remainder is . There is a unique polynomial of
least degree with these two properties. What is the some of the squares of the
coefficients of that polynomial?

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Problem 21

Let be the set of circles in the coordinate plane that are tangent to each of the three
circles with equations

, , and .

What is the sum of the areas of all circles in ?

Problem 22

Ant Amelia starts on the number line at and crawls in the following manner.
For Amelia chooses a time duration and an
increment independently and uniformly at random from the
interval During the th step of the process, Amelia moves units in the
positive direction, using up minutes. If the total elapsed time has
exceeded minute during the th step, she stops at the end of that step; otherwise,
she continues with the next step, taking at most steps in all. What is the probability
that Amelia’s position when she stops will be greater than ?

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Problem 23

Let , , , be a sequence of numbers, where each is either or . For each

positive integer , define

Suppose for all . What is the value of the sum

Problem 24

The figure below depicts a regular 7-gon inscribed in a unit circle.

What is the sum of the 4th powers of the lengths of all 21 of its edges and diagonals?
(A) 49 (B) 98 (C) 147 (D) 168 (E) 196

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Problem 25

Four regular hexagons surround a square with a side length , each one sharing an
edge with the square, as shown in the figure below. The area of the resulting 12-
sided outer nonconvex polygon can be written as , where , , and are
integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is ?

(A) −12 (B) −4 (C) 4 (D) 24 (E) 32

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 Answer Key
1. A
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. D
8. D
9. B
10. D
11. E
12. D
13. D
14. E
15. C
16. C
17. D
18. C
19. A
20. E
21. E
22. C
23. A
24. C
25. B

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